"Nah, who'd wanna become that little again." The girls said, almost in unison.
"Bad enough I've had to wait 12 years to get this far!" Jackie giggled, wiggling her toes as she sat there. "Don't wanna be a baby again, i'd have to repeat fifth grade all over again."
Annie nodded. "I don't wanna go that far again, at least not yet, I mean, we're all gonna be in junior high school soon enough!"
The other girls nodded, none of them noticing or correcting her, since what she said sounded right to them now. They all sat and talked, jabbering away about subjects in school, and some of them even giggled as they iterated stories of boys and girls they'd noticed, acting naturally as they would if they were preteens.
Meanwhile the ring warmed, tracing its magic through each of them as the nature of the wish continued to change the girls and the world around them...